On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan
<pocallaghan(a)gmail.com>wrote:
On Mon, 2011-05-02 at 08:02 -0700, Tod Thomas wrote:
> I've installed VirtualBox on a Win7 workstation and established a
> running
> FC14 VM. Everything was fine until I tried doing a yum upgrade and
> then I
> discovered my boot partition needed to be at least 7GB! to be able to
> perform the upgrade.
That can't de right. No way does the boot partition need to be 7GB. More
like 500MB. Do you mean the root partition? If so, try saving space by
moving /var/cache/yum to a different partition and leaving a symlink in
its place.
poc
I typed GB but meant MB:
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Transaction Check Error:
installing package kernel-2.6.35.12-90.fc14.i686 needs 7MB on the /boot
filesystem
Error Summary
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Disk Requirements:
At least 7MB more space needed on the /boot filesystem.
/dev/sda1 49M 26M 21M 57% /boot